[jira] [Created] (HBASE-10319) HLog should roll periodically to allow DN decommission to eventually complete.

["Jonathan Hsieh (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Jonathan Hsieh created HBASE-10319:
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             Summary: HLog should roll periodically to allow DN decommission to eventually complete.
                 Key: HBASE-10319
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-10319
             Project: HBase
          Issue Type: Bug
            Reporter: Jonathan Hsieh


We encountered a situation where we had an esseitially read only table and attempted to do a clean HDFS DN decommission.  DN's cannot decomission if there are open blocks being written to currently on it.  Because the hbase Hlog file was open, had some data (hlog header), the DN could not decommission itself.  Since no new data is ever written, the existing periodic check is not activated.

After discussing with [~atm], it seems that although an hdfs semantics change would be ideal (e.g. hbase doesn't have to be aware of hdfs decommission and the client would roll over) this would take much more effort than having hbase periodically force a log roll.  This would enable the hdfs dn con complete.



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